I sent LR a private message on this topic.
I'm starting to think it would be worthwhile to start buying litecoin (LTC) mining hardware - whether LR agree's or not. At least folks on a private level people can take advantage. It is seeming inevitable that LTC will be accepted as pay. OkPay just accepted LTC this past day or so, and MtGox is working on adding LTC to be traded with their new engine (whcih will likely get Coinbase to add it and maybe Bitpay to accepting it - an instant massive utility improvement. LTC is currently booming up on large volume. It hit $30 per coin, and is back to trading at about 30 LTC/BTC. Also, because of supply values, where BTC is set to peak at 21mill and LTC is set to peak at 84mill (not sure over what time period), it seems logical or intuitive anyway that LTC will move upwards to 1/4th the price per coin as BTC. If true, LTC has about eight times more growth to just catch up to to that level. In other words, from this time forward, any percentage value gain BTC ends up with, multiply that gain by upwards of eight times for litecoin, just my gut.
Even if people didn't want the LTC, mining for it can be like proxy mining for BTC. You can trade them easily enough on BTC-e....
....and ROI with hardware is 3 months. Should be even faster now with higher prices. All this without worrying about the ASIC swarm...yet.
Interesting. I like the idea but might be out of scope (currently) for LRM. Other than GPU's, are there any actual real options yet? The only things I've found thus far are FPGA's still in development stages.
If GPUs are the only real options at the moment, it might be difficult to source good ones. Lots of 7950's are going discontinued. I have not checked 70's or 90's and it seems people are having trouble getting any significantly better performance out of the new R9 cards ($/kHs, kH/J).
